I have been traveling and ever since I heard about the miserable thirteen years and nine months sentence against Leopoldo López, I have been trying to put together my thoughts on the matter, but it is not easy.

Not that I did not expect it, I did. Leopoldo López was identified early by Chavismo as someone that needed to be neutralized. When he was Mayor of Chacao he was barred from running for office for seven years using a procedure via the Comptroller which had no legality, but which stopped him at the time from running for office. The excuse was that López used some funds to pay salaries earmarked for something else. Of course, no equivalent decision was made against Nelson Merentes who used billions of dollars, not millions of Bolívars for the same purpose as López. But, of course, Merentes has never been interested in being elected, he prefers being named to positions he is not qualified for. But I digress....

According to early reviews the book is neither a hit nor dry campaign literature, but a examination of Trump's roots and his rise in business and politics, full of the sort of gems political watchers have been enjoying all summer.

Will Donald Trump make a great US president? The jury is still out on that, but this much is clear – with his larger-than-life personality, stinging commentary, and gift for exaggeration, he makes a great subject for a biography.

So good, in fact, that the publication date for a forthcoming Trump bio has already been moved up twice, and the buzz has generated dozens of articles, Twitter hashtags, and Internet memes."Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success,"by Pulitzer Prize-winning former Newsday reporter Michael D'Antonio will be published Sept. 22.Recommended: What do you know about Donald Trump?

Originally slated for January 2016, it was first moved to October 2015, then September,…